The convincing victory of Rumen Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria alliance should offer the opportunity for stable government after years of turmoil – but little is known about which political direction it will take.
Tom Junes
On Sunday, Bulgaria held its eighth parliamentary election in five years. The country’s enduring political instability has led to seven consecutive snap elections and a protracted political crisis that began with mass protests in the summer of 2020.
The seemingly endless electoral cycle had become hard to keep track of and was complicated by a multitude of political start-ups coming and going. The latest act in this drama was triggered in late January when President Rumen Radev stepped down prematurely and announced his intent to enter the parliamentary fray.
It reached a somewhat shocking denouement late on Sunday evening when the first indications came that pre-election opinion polling, and even the initial exit polls, had been quite far off the mark. While they had indicated a win for Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria coalition, none had foreseen the scale of victory.
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